“Making headway, one step at a time”.   This was the last communication from Joe Bell on his epic quest to walk across the United States and do everything within his power to end bullying, intolerance and suicide.  His journey was not the result of an idealistic publicity stunt.  It was a mission.  A truck whose driver allegedly had fallen asleep at the wheel struck Joe down yesterday killing him as he fought in valor as a dad, and a hero.

Our country’s values had fallen asleep at its own wheel long before this accident.  Jadin Bell, Joe’s 15 year old son, tragically took his own life earlier this year.  Jadin hung himself after a barrage of bullying that even continued in the local paper while he hung on for days in a coma.  One commenter, for example calling himself “PuzzleFighter”  wrote in the thread commemorating Jadin, “BTW, some guy who…